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Roger Hicks -- Author of The Rangefinder Book

Roger Hicks is a well known photographic writer, author of The Rangefinder Book, over three dozen other photographic books, and a frequent contributor to Shutterbug and Amateur Photographer. Unusually in today's photographic world, most of his camera reviews are film cameras, especially rangefinders. See www.rogerandfrances.com for further background (Frances is his wife Frances Schultz, acknowledged darkroom addict and fellow Shutterbug contributor) .


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Old 10-25-2011   #51
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Old 10-25-2011   #52
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Old 10-25-2011   #54
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Light falloff
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Old 10-25-2011   #55
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One body and four lenses, or two bodies and two lenses?
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Old 10-25-2011   #56
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Old 10-25-2011   #57
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What a great thread!
Nikon vs Canon...
Using only Leica lens on Leica bodies..
Slow shutter speeds..
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Old 10-25-2011   #58
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I Never Worried about putting Film in my Camera till,

my Recent Nightmare....

Elated because I got a 'new' Lens
Ran out gleefully, shot a roll, got absorbed in developing & scanning, then got disappointed in the new lens'
thereby FORGETTING to put film in the Camera
Next Morning go out Shooting with Tom & Tuulikki
thinking my camera is loaded
get up to about #39 and realize ...
Oh Sh*t no Film in the camera ............
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Things I never worried about...
Old 10-25-2011   #60
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Things I never worried about...

... that I spent too much on my beloved M6 + Color Skopar; because that other guy on the intertube scored that same camera with Summilux ASPH for 200 bucks BIN price last Sun night on ebay.
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Black tape over the camera name.
hehe, I know where you read that.

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Old 10-25-2011   #65
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Rangefinders..

When I got into photography in the late seventies, the days of the rangefinder were already practically over. There were basically two types of cameras left; compacts and SLRs.. I saved up for a Zenit SLR and used it for 20 years without second thought. I didn't have a clue that rangefinders existed. Didn't worry about mirror slap, didn't worry about handholding at slow shutter speeds, and didn't worry about focus accuracy of ultra wides either. Then came the internet.. and I got sucked into rangefinders.
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Old 10-25-2011   #68
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Old equipment becoming obsolete when new stuff is announced. I can understand the price drop, but not the fact that a camera stops making images or a lens becomes unsharp based on news. Oh, and rumours can actually be as powerful as news in making stuff obsolete.
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Old 10-26-2011   #69
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Not black-taping over the camera name (particularly if that name is Leica).
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I was using the internet before I was buying cameras, so there never was a time I didn't worry about things read on the internet with regard to cameras. However, I will say that the internet got me thinking about:

Focus shift, range finder calibration, the "actual" ISO of film (Delta 3200 is not a 3200 ISO film, who knew!?).
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Old 10-26-2011   #72
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Image sharpness,
Lens distortion (barrel etc),
Getting perfect negatives and using two or more cameras when shooting 35mm one for each different light condition,
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Old 10-26-2011   #74
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THIS!!!!
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